Yoshua Bengio
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The most-cited AI scientist — now building the safety case full time.
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Bengio's Montreal school drove deep learning's language breakthroughs (attention's precursors among them); he shared the 2018 Turing Award, chaired the International AI Safety Report, and founded LawZero in 2025 to build non-agentic 'Scientist AI' — the researcher's version of pulling the emergency brake.
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